Overnight reports: Trump-Musk interview delayed by hack, UK and Norway record highs

It happened while you slept. Here’s what global agencies reported from Monday night to Tuesday.

• The conversation between presidential candidate Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk on the X platform started with almost a 45-minute delay. Musk stated that a massive hacking attack on the platform caused the technical issues. The talk, advertised by Trump's team as the biggest "conversation" in history, was supposed to start at 20:00 Eastern Time (01:00 GMT on Tuesday), but for over half an hour, users could not join the broadcast.

• More than 960 lbs of heroin were seized by Bulgarian authorities. According to the local prosecutor's office, a huge amount of the drug was found in a container at the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas.

• On the Norwegian Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard, a record August temperature of 20.3 degrees Celsius was noted on Sunday – reported the Norwegian Meteorological Institute on Monday. The absolute temperature record for this archipelago was set on 25 July 2020 and stood at 21.7 degrees.

• A record temperature was also noted in the United Kingdom. 34.8 degrees Celsius was recorded on Monday afternoon in Cambridge, making it the highest temperature in the UK this year – reported the Met Office. According to meteorologists, Monday was the peak of the heatwave that lasted for several days, and temperatures are expected to start dropping.